10 Amendments of Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO related to 2019/2131(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to ensure that EU competition policy promotes fair competition and reciprocal trading conditions at EU and global level with the further aim of strengthening our own industry in the EU; calls, therefore, for unfair trading practices to be addressed effectively by making full use of the available instruments, developing new, effective tools and tackling the distortive effects of foreign state ownership and subsidies in the internal market, in particular where EU funding is involved; welcomes, against this backdrop, the new Commission’s intention to strengthen the foreign direct investment screening mechanism, and calls for discussions on the EU’s international procurement instrument to be resumed;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Points out the need to reduce persisting asymmetries in international public procurement markets and calls on the Commission to show ambition in opening foreign markets to EU companies, especially SMEs; welcomes the renewed discussions on the EU's international procurement instrument (IPI) and asks for its adoption by 2020 in order to guarantee reciprocity where trade partners restrict their access to their procurement market;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls, moreover, on the Commission either to further enhance global cooperation on competition matters or to ensure fair conditions for competition via bilateral trade agreements and in international foruman international level playing field, agree on common standards and procedures via bilateral trade agreements and in international forums, such as OECD, UNCTAD, WTO, World Bank; asks the Commission to be active in strenghtening the International Competition Network (ICN) and highlights the importance of an effective cooperation with national competition authorities from third countries in order to increase the effectiveness of specific investigations; fully supports the Commission’s efforts in the context of the ongoing World Trade Organisation (WTO) reform to update the multilateral rules on subsidies or sectoral initiatives to adequately address subsidies at international level, in particular on industrial subsidies, state owned enterprises and forced technology transfers, in order to redress non market- oriented policies and practices of third countries;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. CWelcomes the presence of specific competition chapters in recently concluded bilateral trade and investment agreements and calls on the Commission to continue negotiating ambitious, enforceable competition and State aid provisions in all future trade agreements as part of a holistic and ambitious EU trade policy;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to ensure that competition rules are compatible with the moderna fast changing global economy and best serve European consumers by fully taking into account the impact of the digitalisation of the economy on how global markets operate; welcomes, in this context, the ongoing plurilateral WTO e-commerce negotiations toacknowledges that online platforms are key enablers of digital trade but highlights, in particular, that the emergence of digital economy has led to excessive market and power concentration; stresses the need to focus on key issues such as access to and portability of data, role and presence of platforms in the markets, technological neutrality; welcomes, in this context, the ongoing plurilateral WTO e-commerce negotiations and calls for a comprehensive and ambitious set of rules to address digital trade barriers, ensure that companies can compete worldwide on a level playing field based on global trading rules.and to enhance consumer's trust in online environment;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Welcomes the growing debate on the relation between EU competition rules, industrial policy and international trade; asks the Commission to examine whether is appropriate to modernise or to update the interpretation of targeted competition rules, without hampering competition on relevant European markets, in order to better take into account the distorsive effects created by state-backed or subsidised companies, which could create long-term market conditions detrimental to European consumers and to the competitiveness of EU businesses;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Calls on the Commission to properly analyse and study the public procurement markets of the third countries with which it has -or is negotiating - a Free Trade Agreement, in order to negotiate the best access conditions for European companies
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Stresses that the effective implementation of the sustainable development provisions of trade agreements is important for ensuring a race to the top of environmental and social standards, protecting EU businesses from unfair competition, where such standards are not met by our trading partners; in this perspective, welcomes the introduction of environmental and social criteria in the reform of anti-subsidy and anti-dumping measures;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Calls on the Commission that the Directorates-General involved - DG Trade and DG Competence - act in coordination to ensure that the competition rules and their implementation guarantee fair competition to European companies in third markets, and vice versa.
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6 c. Highlights the importance of incorporating a gender based perspective both at multilateral and bilateral level, including gender chapters in trade agreements and designing gender sensitive measures (i.e. include in ex-ante and ex-post impact assessment the gender impact of the EU trade policy and agreements) to boost competition and promote inclusive economic growth.